SAN FRANCISCO - Corporate law firms have a tendency to follow three things wherever they go: clients, wealth and one another. ...

Web Exclusive - After 21 years on the San Francisco bench, Judge John Conway is calling it quits. ...

Industry Watch - By Devan McClaine - One look at the eclectic office of Richard Idell, and it is instantly apparent where his ...

Industry Watch - By Don J. DeBenedictis - Joseph G. Cavallo, the Irvine criminal defense attorney who rocketed to fame defendi...

Focus Column - By Robert D. Brownstone, Todd R. Gregorian and Michael A. Sands - Recently, both business and government have l...

Industry Watch - By Maya Meinert - Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher has lured environmental litigator Peter Modlin away from San Fr...

Forum Column - By Michael Willemsen - California courts that have tried to skirt the question of whether registration for sex ...

Industry Watch - By Alexa Hyland - Attorney Eric Grodan is keenly aware of statistics showing that half of all adult Americans...

Industry Watch - By Rebecca U. Cho - Dreier Stein & Kahan hired franchise law litigator David Laufer last week as partner ...

LOS ANGELES - A year after the surprise termination of Los Angeles County's litigation cost manager, a report shows the county...

LOS ANGELES - Both the American Civil Liberties Union and advocates for the homeless oppose the law enforcement crackdown on L...

Orphaned at 10, a runaway and a ward of the court in his teens, William J. Cox had just the right pedigree to champion the rig...

Not only did Broade Communications Systems Inc. lose a key battle Friday to defeat a class action over stock-options backdatin...

On the Move

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Victoria S. Kaufman finds fulfillment in helping people and companies cure their financial ills and get ...

In his role as public-policy director of the Center for Democracy and Technology, a privately funded civil liberties group, Ja...

The 17 outside attorneys who represented Qualcomm in a closely watched high-stakes patent-infringement case will get their day...

SANTA ANA - The California Supreme Court has stepped into the case of a man who spent 24 years in prison for a murder he didn'...

The 63-year-old ADR Services mediator has been challenging herself all her life - with success. She was the only female math-...

Forum Column - By Regina Diehl - California is abandoning its responsibility to the state's foster children, providing their c...

Dole Food Co. executives and employees believed strongly that the pesticide they were using in Nicaragua was not a risk to ban...

Forum Column - By Patrick Mattimore - Creating legal protections for the media can be a valuable asset for exposing otherwise-...

Duane Morris trial attorneys have successfully defended a Cleveland, Ohio-based manufacturer of portable heaters against claim...

SAN FRANCISCO - Rex R. Perschbacher will step down next year as dean of UC Davis School of Law, the school announced Thursday....

Cloumn - By Peter Blumberg - Jerry Brown's decades as an opponent of the death penalty didn't stop him from getting elected at...

LOS ANGELES - After months of inaction in the giant backdating shareholder class action against Broadcom, the 9th U.S. Circui...

Denver-based Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck announced plans Thursday to merge with Hatch & Parent, a prominent water-righ...

Employment Column - By Alisa M. Chevalier and Mani Sheik - A forthcoming decision from the California Supreme Court will decid...

Even documents that don't bear an attorney's name can be protected by attorney-client privilege, a state appellate court ruled...

Focus Column - By Christopher Van Gundy and Sharlyn Walling Dreyfus - New federal rules pertaining to electronic discovery are...